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This is a PDF* with a set of twenty creative writing prompts (plus two bonus prompts) that are aligned to Common Core Writing Anchor Standard 1: ...
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This is a PDF* with a set of twenty creative, visual writing prompts that are aligned to Common Core Writing Anchor Standard 1: “Write opinion ...
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This is a PDF* with a set of twenty creative, visual writing prompts that are aligned to Common Core Writing Anchor Standard 2: "Write informativ...
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Poetry Boot Camp is a fun way to go over some of the basic terms you use during a Poetry Unit. It is a basic note taking session, but the teacher...
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This is a PDF* with a set of three hundred creative writing prompts that are aligned to Common Core Writing Anchor Standards 1,2, and 3. Each pro...
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This is a PDF* with a set of fifteen creative writing prompts that are aligned to Common Core Writing Anchor Standards 1,2, and 3.
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Most students know that paragraphs in their essays should start with a topic sentence, but then what? This color-coding system helps them identif...
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This is a PDF* with a set of twenty creative writing prompts that are aligned to Common Core Writing Anchor Standard 3.
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This is a PDF* with a set of twenty (plus three bonus prompts, so 23 total) creative writing prompts about history and social studies that are al...
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Poetry Graphic Organizer. This graphic organizer helps students understand the difference between sensory language and figurative language when u...
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13 page file with connotation activities. Document includes:
1. Connotation definition and example with practice using car names (2 pages)
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It is my philosophy that sentences are like cookie recipes. :) If you find a great cookie recipe there just might be one or two other variations...
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Adjective Poem. This is a form poem to help your students write a poem from a simple pattern. Students must create their own poem using the parts...
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Mini Lessons - Reading - Phonological Awareness - Grade 1
Mini Lessons with Introduction, Practice, and Wrap-up Activities
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30 Sets of Basic Word Stems from Latin and Greek Roots. These are lists of word stems from Latin and Greek roots that will help your students un...
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Kids love the silly samples in this practice sheet for working with dependent and independent clauses. The prompts are non-sequitor like, and re...
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A month's worth of grammar drills and their answers! These drills range from parallel structure to word choice exercises to parts of speech iden...
This is an eye catching way to get students attention in planning the summary of their story. Student are able to list the main characters, sett...
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This Powerpoint presentation introduces students to Jonathan Swift and two of his major works, Gulliver's Travels and "A Modest Proposal." The le...
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Christmas Activity - Teaching Vocabulary with Lyrics from Jingle Bells. Here's an engaging December or winter activity to teach vocabulary by usi...
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Reading Strategies - Active Reading Strategies Concept Map. Graphic organizer can be blown up into a poster, used as a transparency, or projected...
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This document consists of 65 ELA Common Core Based Learning Scales that coorelate with each standard for 1st grade ELA Domains. Written in a kid ...
Here are three projectable documents, or overheads, to use when explaining MLA citation format in essays. These overheads demonstrate how to take...
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Analyzing Poetry Handout
This handout guides both novices and advanced students through poetry in a step-by-step guide. Students analyze tone/at...
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Who can resist this adorable wise owl? This vocabulary word organizer is so fun and easy to use. It has boxes for the word, definition, synonym...
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Homophones! In this worksheet, students will go through sixteen sentences with two or more homophones in each. This is a good introduction to hom...
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This is a collection (Updated in 2011)of more advanced essay and composition lessons and handouts. (I also offer a set of basic essay lessons and...
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This document consists of 3 Common Core Learning Scales that coorelate with each standard for 1st grade Writing Domains. Written in a kid friend...
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Here are three handouts to use when writing a compare & contrast essay. Two documents are graphical guides to help students understand the struct...
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Help your children learn their color words with this great game! All you have to do is:
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This reproducible uses Alice Carroll's Jabberwocky poem to teach context clues. Students use context clues to decide the meaning of difficult an...
Do you need to teach your students how to identify the theme in literary selections? Look no further! Here is an 8 page packet which includes t...
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Drama vs. Prose Chart and Word List. A good activity to use when introducing drama to your students. Students will have to categorize the terms a...
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Help your students apply what they know about author bias with the Persuasion: Critics with a Bias Team Activity. Students will work in teams to...
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A clear, simple overhead that addresses five main forms of conflict in short stories, each with a clear example.
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A list of the most common advertising appeals and their defintion. Excellent as a handout, overhead, transparency, etc.
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Elaboration Mini-Lesson - Use these slides in an elaboration mini-lesson to show students the difference between a story that lists events and a ...
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Teaching the concept of round, flat, static, and dynamic characters? This packet is perfect for that! It contains printables and pages that you...
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This reference contains the 21 Spanish Speaking Countries in both Spanish and English and the Spanish nationality for each country.
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This is a four page overhead note, with brief class activities as you go through the note. This note introduces students to the definition and f...
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A lesson on satire. I used these notes for transparencies, but they could also be easily converted into a powerpoint presentation. (Links to sati...
Help your students differentiate among third person omniscient, limited omniscient, and camera points of view with the Three Types of Third Perso...
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This is a set of both Modern Handwriting and Traditional Handwriting Posters for the classroom to teach your students where the letters sit on th...
This is an empty plot chart that can be used in multiple ways. Students can fill in the chart to help further understanding of plot elements or t...
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This file contains daily quickwrite prompts for EACH chapter of The Catcher in the Rye. Also included:
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This Powerpoint presentation introduces students to the historical context for the Restoration and Enlightenment Period in British Literature. It...
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This Powerpoint (PPT) presentation introduces students to the structure of a Shakespearean Sonnet (fourteen lines in three quatrains and one coup...
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I give this to my students for every short story. They use it to plot out all of the basic elements within that story.
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This document consists of 10 Common Core Learning Scales that coorelate with each standard for 1st grade Reading Literature Domain. Written in a...
This document consists of 8 Common Core Learning Scales that coorelate with each standard for 1st grade Speaking and Listening Domains. Written ...




